Slot Game Help

[valid helm]

to start off, im adding a little bit of a slot game aspect into my main game for once the player loses a round ( a way for them to win coins or a free play back). Im using the transform.position.y to move the slot down and to bring it back to the start if it gets to the bottom as seen in the picture Ill add. however im trying to get it to stop on one of the 5 items in the reel and when I check the transform.position.y it alwasy seems to have extra decimals or it doesnt line up with what it is supposed to or what it says in the code. This is also my first time using enumerators so please bear with me

    {
        rowStopped = false;
        timeInterval = 0.04f;

        for (int i = 0; i < 60; i++)
        {
            if (transform.position.y <= -3.78f)
            {
                transform.position = new Vector2(transform.position.x, 6.22f);
            }

            transform.position -= new Vector3(0, 0.01f, 0);
            print(transform.position.y);

            yield return new WaitForSeconds(timeInterval);

        }

        randomValue = Random.Range(1, 6);


        //tells us which item we want to stop on

        switch(randomValue)
        {
            case 1:
                //this is a 10coin
                selection = -3.78f;
                //transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x, -3.78f, 0);
                break;

            case 2:
                //this is a 5coin
                selection = -1.78f;
                //transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x, -1.78f, 0);
                break;

            case 3:
                //this is a key
                selection = 0.22f;
                //transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x, 0.22f, 0);
                break;

            case 4:
                //this is a costume
                selection = 2.22f;
                //transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x, 2.22f, 0);
                break;

            case 5:
                //this is a costume
                selection = 6.22f;
                //transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x, 4.22f, 0);
                break;
        }

        
        while(transform.position.y != selection)
        {
            if (transform.position.y <= -3.57f)
            {
                transform.position = new Vector2(transform.position.x, 6.22f);
            }

            transform.position -= new Vector3(0, 0.01f, 0);


            print("the y position is: " + transform.position.y);
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(timeInterval);
        }


        

        //Play sound
        stopSound.Play();
        print("final position is: " + transform.position.y);

        if (transform.position.y == -3.78f)
            stoppedSlot = "10Coin";
        else if (transform.position.y == -1.78f)
            stoppedSlot = "5Coin";
        else if (transform.position.y == 0.22f)
            stoppedSlot = "freePlay";
        else if (transform.position.y == 2.22f)
            stoppedSlot = "key";
        else if (transform.position.y == 4.22f)
            stoppedSlot = "Costume";
        else if (transform.position.y == 6.22f)
            stoppedSlot = "10Coin";

        rowStopped = true;
    }```

[wintry mango]

if you're using <=, decimals shouldn't matter

[valid helm]

it brings it back to the top, but I have some print statements and they are simply not outputting what i see on the game

[wintry mango]

ah, so it's not landing perfectly?

[valid helm]

yeah

and like

[wintry mango]

so set its position?

[valid helm]

this is a cheated way to do it

i did set its position but its still off

and idk why

[wintry mango]

where are you setting it

and are you sure you're on point?

[valid helm]

but id prefer to use this

[wintry mango]

make sure you're setting the pos correctly

[valid helm]

is there a different way? how would I make sure? im used to just setting it like I did in the switch case

but I would prefer to use the while loop and have it stop once it hits the icon

is it something to do with enumerators i dont understand

cause the final position gets posted like 100 times when i though it would be posted 3 times max (one for each reel)

[wintry mango]

just set the final roll before stopping

(slot 1 = panda, slot 2 = coin, slot 3 = whatever)

and when you stop

set the pos accordingly

[valid helm]

thats what I tried to do here but the y position never equaled the wanted final position

unless im misinterpreting what youre saying

[wintry mango]

so set it

[valid helm]

I do for now in the switch case

and it doesnt work

absolutely no idea why

has to be somethign with this enumerator I think because it also runs these lines way more often than I would like

[wintry mango]

I would rework your logic

also is it even running?

[valid helm]

yeah

you mean the switch case?

[wintry mango]

yes

[valid helm]

i guess I dont have a print statemtns to check that

one sec

more than 3 times

no idea why

[wintry mango]

case 5's selection is not equal to the y position you're setting

[wintry mango]

instead of this

        while(transform.position.y != selection)
        {
            if (transform.position.y <= -3.57f)
            {
                transform.position = new Vector2(transform.position.x, 6.22f);
            }

            transform.position -= new Vector3(0, 0.01f, 0);


            print("the y position is: " + transform.position.y);
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(timeInterval);
        }

make a boolean and just run it while it's not true, setting it when you set the y pos

[valid helm]

sorry what do you mean

[wintry mango]

boolean spinning = true
y position = specific position
spinning = false

while(spinning)
// spin

[valid helm]

stop spinning once y.pos is the same as selection?

I feel like that is the exact same thing... and the problem with that is my y.pos tunes into big decimals after like a millisecond

[wintry mango]

no

[valid helm]

that should have 2 decimals max

[wintry mango]

stop spinning when you're done spinning

(aka spinning == false)

[valid helm]

but when is that

[wintry mango]

when you land

when you set the position

[grizzled mountain]

Try to use transform.localPosition instead of transform.position

[valid helm]

im trying so hard to interpret what youre saying and i literally cant.

while(spinning){

transform it 0.01f down 
run random.range
get a random selection
set position of object to random selection

spinning = false
}

[valid helm]

ill try this really quick

wouldnt know enough about it to understand the diff but ill try it

[wintry mango]

while spinning: spin.
done spinning? don't spin anymore.

that simple

[wintry mango]

localPosition is relative to the parent

does your object have a parent?

[valid helm]

i put them inside an empty object

so like yeah

[wintry mango]

so it will affect it then

if parent is at 10, 3 and child pos is at 10, 3 as well, localPosition will be 0, 0, position will be 10, 3

[valid helm]

not that simple to me...because i dont know how to find out if its done spinning because the y.pos is never equal to the selected value

[valid helm]

so is this causeing all my problems?

shoudl I remove parent

[wintry mango]

😮‍💨

[valid helm]

Im so fucking sorry man

[wintry mango]

when are you stopping the spinning?

instantly when the y value hits your target?

or after a period of time

[valid helm]

I do 60 movements first (to show some spinning) then i have my switch case to choose a selection, and then i wanted to while loop it to spin until it hits the selected

[wintry mango]

are you changing transform.position without deltaTime?

that'll break stuff

[valid helm]

no, whenever I loop to move the object I use wait for seconds (timeinterval) to delay it a bit to make it a smooth spin or else itll happen waaayyy too fast

so like is that breaking my shit too

[wintry mango]

yeah... so use deltaTime

not wait intervals

[valid helm]

okay so before I do that... I just removed parent

and um

yeah that was a lot of my problems

I did not know that it worked like that omfg

okay one sec

[wintry mango]

lmao

[valid helm]

So i didnt change any of the delta time stuff but with the parent gone and then some values changed because the parent is gone

the stop now stops them in the right place

so now I may be able to do the while loop to stop them

so again

gimme another sec

I fucking lovve you for sticking through this with my absolute braindead self

okay so it still goes into crazy decimals while spinning

so the while loop checking if its equal to the selection wont work

but youre saying this could be because im not using delta time?

I see what yorue saying now

now to try an implement this

[valid helm]

yeah cant say I properly know how to do this

[wintry mango]

Vector3 * Time.deltaTime

will slow it down to the framerate so someone playing at 144 fps won't have a faster anim than someone at, say, 30.

[valid helm]

so from this...to this?

but you want me to remove the waitforseconds?

[wintry mango]

just yield return null

[valid helm]

but then wont it still scroll insanely quick?

cause im using that to stall for a bit till it does the next movement

[wintry mango]

deltatime slows stuff down

try it

[valid helm]

...

it overlapped them

lmao what thats whacky

[wintry mango]

you messed something up with the transforms

[valid helm]

for sure

lol

[wintry mango]

it's not deltatime tho

[valid helm]

the two screenshots i sent was all i changed

i added the *time.delta time at the end

wait

this thing is so fucked now lmao

[wintry mango]

lmfao

F

[valid helm]

its soooo buggy now with the time.deltatime

I agree I should be using it after the little bit of research

but i just dont know how to implement it

so now I ask myself if thats the reason that it goes into decimals

when scrolling

[wintry mango]

😮‍💨

[valid helm]

hey man thanks for the help, ima grab some food because ive been stuck on this for so long and the fact that I still dont know why is painful

I appreciate it a lot

<3